Critics condemn ‘reckless and cruel’ expulsions and say deportees likely to be targeted by armed gangs who control much of country About this content | Luke Taylor in Bogotá and Gloria Oladipo in New York More than 70 Haitians expelled from the United … Continue reading US resumes deportation flights to Haiti despite continuing bloodshed
Experts say most guns smuggled from states with lax firearms laws such as Florida, Arizona and Georgia Oliver Laughland As Haiti has again plunged into violent chaos, images of gang members bearing high-powered rifles, pump action shotguns or automatic weapons in the … Continue reading Guns and weapons trafficked from US fueling Haiti gang violence
A report in the journal Criminology shows that homicide cases are less likely to be solved when the victim is Black Abené Clayton For nearly a decade, Nicole Gardner would tense up any time someone asked: “How many kids do … Continue reading Two Black moms say police won’t solve their children’s murders. A new study asks: is race to blame?
Ed Pilkington Texas alone has suffered 17 mass shootings this year and now lawmakers propose ‘battlefield trauma care’ facilities in schools HB 1147, a bill pending in the Texas house of representatives, is strikingly graphic. It proposes that schools across the state … Continue reading How America’s fatal gun attraction turned schools into war zones
By Marita Moloney | BBC News Ten people have died following a shooting at a ballroom dance studio in the Californian city of Monterey Park, police said. Police say another 10 people are injured and the suspect remains at large. The shooting happened at about 22:20 local time on Saturday (06:20 GMT on Sunday). Thousands of people had earlier gathered in the city for the Monterey Park Lunar New Year festival. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said they are seeking a male suspect who fled the scene but did not provide any other details about him. Captain Andrew Meyer said that emergency services arrived on … Continue reading Monterey Park shooting: Suspect at large after shooting near LA kills 10
‘He needed help and was killed,’ says Patrisse Cullors, as police are seen repeatedly using stun gun on him after traffic accident Sam Levin in Los Angeles | 12 jan. 2023 A cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors was killed by Los Angeles police after he got in a traffic accident and officers who showed up repeatedly Tased and restrained him in the middle of the street, according to body-camera footage and his family’s account. Footage from the 3 January encounter released on Wednesday showed that Keenan Anderson, a 31-year-old high school teacher and father, was begging for help as multiple officers held him down, and at … Continue reading Teacher and cousin of Black Lives Matter founder ‘Tased to death’ by LAPD
Boy taken into custody after wounding of teacher, whose condition is said to be showing signs of improvement Maya Yang and Associated Press | Jan. 8, 2023 The shooting of a teacher in the city of Newport News in Virginia by a six-year-old student should be a red flag for the US, the city’s mayor has said, as the teacher’s condition showed signs of improvement. The mayor, Phillip Jones, said the condition of the teacher, identified by local media as Abby Zwerner, was “trending in a positive direction” in hospital. The student, a boy, was taken into police custody after shooting and wounding the teacher with a handgun … Continue reading Shooting of teacher by six-year-old a red flag for US, says mayor
Drag performers, known for their exuberance in the spotlight, have found their spirits subdued in the last month by serious concerns for their safety on stage. By EMILY OLSON | 27 Dec. 2022 Police have yet to disclose a motive behind the Nov. 19 shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colo., which left five people dead and at least 17 others injured. A 22-year-old suspect was charged with 305 criminal counts, including bias-motivated crimes. The gunman opened fire just as Club Q was wrapping up its weekly Saturday evening drag show. The nightclub had also planned another drag show for the following morning, to honor Transgender Day … Continue reading After the Club Q shooting, drag queens say they’re upping security measures
There has been an unprecedented rise in gun violence across the United States, and it seems that we continue to get desensitized by this increase by the almost regular massacres that are occurring in schools and public spaces. Omer Awan | Contributor: Dr. Omer Awan MD MPH CIIP is a practicing radiologist physician | 14 Dec. 2022 According to CDC data, both homicides and suicides performed by firearms increased by 8.3% in the year 2021, when comparing data to the year 2020. In this same interval, suicides by methods other than firearms actually decreased. Despite these troubling numbers that only seem to get worse year by year, … Continue reading Using A Public Health Approach To Combat Gun Violence
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